Re: Heads-up: Possible Televisual Recovery

In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:07:34 -0600
Robert Uhl <eadmund42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jasper Janssen <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:59:00 -0600, Robert Uhl <eadmund42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In fairness, literacy rates were higher before compulsory public
education than after it and road maintenance was an old common-law
duty for those who lived along them.

And, in fairness, only the people that lived along them actually
*used* those roads, unlike today.

??? They were used as much and as little as roads today.

Eh?

How do you figure that, considering the transport situation in mid
19thC America? Or even late 19thC America?

What's your definition of "used"?

Zebee
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